Liquid, TS, CLG qualify for DH Malmö

Team Liquid, Tempo Storm, and CLG are the three North American teams who have secured spots at DreamHack Masters Malmö via the North American closed qualifier bracket.

The $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö event taking place from April 12-17 in Sweden's third largest city will see eight invited teams (most of whom fall into our top eight Global Ranking) battle with eight who have advanced via four separate regional qualifiers, two for Europe and one apiece for North America and Asia.

The North American qualifier for DreamHack Masters Malmö similarly featured eight invited teams such as Cloud9, Liquid, and Renegades battling eight teams coming from an open qualifier for three spots to the Swedish tournament.

hen1 had a phenomenal performance throughout the qualifier

The single elimination, best-of-three bracket saw the likes of Echo Fox, Splyce, NRG, and OpTic drop out by the round of eight, with the latter two teams playing close games against Cloud9 and Tempo Storm respectively.

The second semifinal was a repeat of the IEM Katowice North American qualifier final as Cloud9 and Tempo Storm dueled for a slot; the Brazilian team clinched de_inferno 16-8 whereas Cloud9 took de_train 16-10.

The final map saw Tempo Storm overwhelming Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert and his men on their T-side as they finished the first half up 12-3 however a minor attempt at a comeback by Cloud9 did give the Brazilians a moment's hesitation before they closed out de_dust2 16-8.

CLG and Cloud9 then locked horns in the third place decider to settle which team would be the third and final to represent North America in Malmö.

Despite a sluggish start on de_cache, CLG put up a defensive wall on their CT side and took the map 16-12. The second map of de_cbble was also a story of CLG's strong defensive game as Stephen "reltuC" Cutler & co. took the map 16-3 off of the back of a 12-3 CT side.

I have tickets and will be cheering for Sweden and Brazil.
My son is a large LG and Fnatic fan so he will bring his mousepads and hope they the teams will sign them.
Damn im excited, also cool that freak isn't coming

I think TS has a good chance against VP, Astralis and the US teams oc.
They might not win the bo3 against the EU teams, but they will make a dent and become stronger.
Im just worried that these wins TS had will get to their heads and think that they are the best in the world and when they meet some real competition and lose they will tilt.
Please LG. You need to prepare them for eu and not let them become divas because they own the US teams. They need to be on their A game in europe and not tilt if they lose.

They know it. Dead (the manager) told them before their game against cloud9:"If you want to go to europe and play with the best, if you want to be the best in the world you need to play with the best. So let's focus, don't throw rounds..."
Basically they know NA is only adoor to EU, and they are aware that EU is in another level.

Great to hear because i think this team is on the rise. I really think you need to look up to the bigger teams and be humble to become one of the top teams. That means you cant let wins get to your head.
But that is great to hear.

This system was not fair, ill explain
Liquid vs RNG , 16-10,16-13
RNG loose and get kicked out with no chance
Liquid vs CLG , 16-1,16-4
CLG loose and get a second chance
HOW IS THIS FAIR TO RNG WHEN THEY ARE VS THE BEST NA TEAM :(
poor RNG, they have the worst luck!!

So happy for Liquid and TS. TS for repeatingly beating the best NA teams when people said it was a fluke and also Liquid seem to be improving.
Also kinda funny how quickly gob b forms mediocre players to a decent team. They're improving rapidly.

Round about a month ago. gob b and legija moved to NA to play with ptr, SileNt and just9n. Already beating top 5-10 NA teams without much effort (it seems) and taking maps/close games of the top 4 of NA. But they're not consistent yet.

The teams at Malmo make it seem like another Major. Valve should attach the tag of a major on Malmo just because the competition here is so good.
Sidenote: Valve's shit rule that fucks up Liquid's chances for Columbus makes Malmo so much more exciting for TL.